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Robotic process automation describes the use of technology to automate tasks that are traditionally
done by a human being. The technology itself mimics an end user by simulating user actions such as
navigating within an application or entering data into forms according to a set of rules. RPA is often
used to automate routine administrative tasks that typically require a human being to interact with
multiple systems, but RPA technology is evolving to support the automation of increasingly
sophisticated processes at scale within enterprise architectures rather than on the desktop. Over the
past two years, RPA has been adopted by a number of business process outsourcing (BPO) providers
and a growing number of end-user organizations are now deploying the technology themselves to
create “virtual workforces” of robotic workers.

The restaurant industry is buzzing about automation. With labor costs expected to double and consumer demand for a seamless checkout experience, many restaurants are looking at technologies that can automate tasks in the front-of-house. But there are back-of-house processes that have yet to be fully automated. While auto-counting your inventory may be a thing someday, it’s not here yet.
So if you can’t automate the inventory management process, you can at least use tools that automate its more cumbersome aspects. Maximum labor output, higher levels of accuracy, and better accountability are possible with a system that automates certain tasks and enable manager productivity for on-the-job success.
After reading this eBook, you’ll know:
• The many inefficiencies generated by manual, spreadsheet-based counting methods.
• The innovations being made to inventory management technology.
• How modern, mobile inventory management tools will help your managers reduce costs and increase product

For years, executives have been automating for efficiency, freeing workers from repetitive
tasks, streamlining the back office and looking for cost savings. Now, they are exploring
intelligent automation to establish thinking processes—processes that communicate realtime insights to employees, customers and partners across an expanding ecosystem. The
ability to add intelligence to automation opens a new universe of possibilities that will have
a profound impact on the way organizations operate and the way work gets done. More than
anything else, intelligent automation will be a defining factor for the future workforce.

Limiting access to confidential client files is vital. But choosing the wrong document security solution can overwhelm your staff (and your IT department) and leave your data vulnerable. Learn five important features a security solution should offer.

Printers, scanners, mobile devices… It’s hard to imagine running a law office without them, but you should know they can expose your client data to theft or misuse. Learn why your office technology may not be as secure as you think.

The confluence of AI and Industry 4.0 is transforming image processing. As image vision becomes widespread, there is an increasing need to transition stand-alone imaging to an integrated driver of automation feeding insights back into the business systems that monitor overall factory performance.
Download the whitepaper to learn more about fitting multiple demands into a single platform—
• Building an industrial system with advanced functions like machine vision and Industry 4.0 connectivity
• Minimizing the footprint of the systems to save space, cost and power consumption
• Adhering to principles of long life, safety, reliability, real-time control functionality alongside AI and IIOT capabilities

Robotic Process Automation was born with the vision of empowering business users to create software bots that could interact with enterprise systems just like humans.
Its benefits include substantial time and cost savings, improved customer satisfaction, increased workforce morale, and the ability to build a competitive advantage over competitors.
But to fully realize all these benefits, it’s important for businesses to select a solution with a robust RPA security architecture that supports core principles, such as least privileges and separation of duties while delivering end-to-end protection for the critical apps and sensitive data involved.
This paper provides an overview of the industry’s highest standard for enterprise-grade security as demonstrated by the market’s leading Digital Workforce platform, Automation Anywhere Enterprise.

In today’s digitally disrupted economy, organizations across industries face competition at unparalleled heights. As a result, differentiation through business automation has become synonymous with convenience and speed.
However, since the technology landscape is changing at an increasing pace, business automation shouldn’t be thought of as a one-time, centralized effort in a discrete process. Rather, organizations should view business automation as a way to decentralize access to systems and enable the broader organization.
Download this whitepaper to learn:
The value of business automation
Why traditional approaches to business automation – such as custom code, implementing standalone solutions, or using point-to-point connections – do not suffice.
The benefits of an API-led approach to business automation.
How organizations like Wells Fargo, the State of Colorado, Tic:Toc, and Addison Lee achieved business automation success using APIs.

Industry 4.0 is a trending topic across the manufacturing world. It’s also a complex concept that encompasses multiple technologies and disciplines — and the ROI isn’t always readily apparent. One way food and beverage companies are seeing some real-time benefits is through the automation of processes to reduce the potential for human error.
In this exclusive on-demand webcast, Adem Kulauzovic, Director of Coding Automation at Domino Printing, sits down with four industry experts to talk about the impact Industry 4.0 and automation can have on reducing human errors in food packaging.
• Bill Dye, Corporate Operations Engineering Manager, Jack Link’s Beef Jerky
• Bob Trask, Senior System Architect, BECKHOFF
• Yanik Ballou, Technology Leader, Optel Group
• Tom Egan, Vice President of Industry Services, PMMI
Join us for insights and firsthand observations from a variety of perspectives on the goals and challenges of integrating technology on the packaging line — an operations engineer

If there’s one thing that stands out about central government, it’s the appetite for digital transformation. Whether delivering new customer-facing websites to drive better engagement with services or establishing a centre of excellence to accelerate the take-up of robotic process automation (RPA), UK government is embracing opportunities to modernise with new technologies.
But despite the great strides made in the last few years, the UK is slipping backwards in E-Government development terms – down from #1 in 2016 to #4 in 2018, according to the UN E-Government Survey 2018. Some argue this is due to the government having tackled the more straightforward digitisation opportunities and because it is now facing the bigger, more complex systems that need modernising. Our research shows that there are also wider challenges, including uncertainty around the impact of Brexit, budgetary pressures and emerging technologies, coming into play.
So what needs to happen to overcome our challenges

This report outlines the reasons that organizations choose not to upgrade ERP solutions, and
cautions against this approach, by supplying research that illustrates the benefits of keeping
your ERP current and up-to-date.

Even with the rise of digital payments, cash is still a popular form of payment. According to the Federal Reserve, consumers use cash to pay for nearly one-third of all retail transactions.
For many retailers, a completely "cashless society" is nowhere in sight. Cash management remains one of the most important aspects of managing a retail operation, particularly at quick service restaurants (QSRs) and convenience stores, where transactions are smaller and cash is a preferred method of payment. This white paper, Boost Profitability by Automating Cash, sponsored by Fiserv and Fast Casual, details the steps to manage cash properly and boost profit for your business.
Uncover the top reasons and flexible options to automate your cash management.
• Time savings
• Theft deterrence
• Higher accuracy
• Better customer service
• Real-time data

Organizations around the world are clamoring for the kind of scale, automation and agility delivered by Lenovo ThinkAgile hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), powered by the Intel® Xeon® Platinum processor. Hear from Eric Sheppard, Research Director for Storage at IDC, how the move from converged infrastructure to hyperconverged systems is reaching market maturity and gaining traction in enterprise IT.
Read an expert’s opinion on what’s next for HCI plus recommendations for organizations who haven’t yet benefited this exciting technology. Download now.

Sponsored by Lenovo, Intel and Nutanix
Organizations around the world are clamoring for the kind of scale, automation and agility delivered by Lenovo ThinkAgile hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), powered by the Intel® Xeon® Platinum processor. Hear from Eric Sheppard, Research Director for Storage at IDC, how the move from converged infrastructure to hyperconverged systems is reaching market maturity and gaining traction in enterprise IT.
Read an expert’s opinion on what’s next for HCI plus recommendations for organizations who haven’t yet benefited this exciting technology. Download now.

In our 35-criteria evaluation of sales force
automation (SFA) providers, we identified the 10
most significant ones — bpm’online, CRMNEXT,
Infor, Microsoft, NetSuite, Oracle, Pegasystems,
Salesforce, SAP, and SugarCRM — and
researched, analyzed, and scored them. This
report shows how each provider measures up
and helps application development and delivery
(AD&D) professionals make the right choice.

Even with the rise of digital payments, cash is still a popular form of payment. According to the Federal Reserve, consumers use cash to pay for nearly one-third of all retail transactions.
For many retailers, a completely "cashless society" is nowhere in sight. Cash management remains one of the most important aspects of managing a retail operation, particularly at quick service restaurants (QSRs) and convenience stores, where transactions are smaller and cash is a preferred method of payment. This white paper, Boost Profitability by Automating Cash, sponsored by Fiserv and Fast Casual, details the steps to manage cash properly and boost profit for your business.
Uncover the top reasons and flexible options to automate your cash management.
• Time savings
• Theft deterrence
• Higher accuracy
• Better customer service
• Real-time data

Challenge
It is not uncommon for SAP system copies, including any post-editing, to take several days to complete. Meanwhile, testing, development and training activities come to a standstill, and the large number of manual tasks in the entire process ties up highly skilled SAP BASIS staff.
Opportunity
Enterprises are looking to automation as a way to accelerate SAP system copies and free up staff. However, this is only one part of the problem: What further complicates the system copy process is the need to safeguard sensitive data and manage huge data volumes while also ensuring that the data used in non-production systems adequately reflects the data in production systems so the quality of development, testing and training activities is not compromised.
Benefits
This white paper explains how a considerable portion of the SAP system copy process can be automated using the CA Automic Automated System Copy for SAP solution and SNP T-Bone, helping enterprises become more agile.

Intel's factories rely on thousands of PCs for manufacturing automation; keeping these PCs up and running can prevent expensive downtime. To manage these systems, Intel IT is using the Intel vPro platform's hardware- based feature, Intel Active Management Technology (Intel AMT), to help reduce production downtime caused by PC incidents by 87.5 percent.

Intel's factories rely on thousands of PCs for manufacturing automation; keeping these PCs up and running can prevent expensive downtime. To manage these systems, Intel IT is using the Intel vPro platform's hardware- based feature, Intel Active Management Technology (Intel AMT), to help reduce production downtime caused by PC incidents by 87.5 percent.

The challenges facing industrial companies grow more daunting by the day. Globalization, energy markets that change in real time, variations in materials and prices, aging of the industrial workforce, inability to attract the next generation of Talent, and difficult regulatory pressures have all contributed to an extremely stressful industrial business environment. Fortunately, the right automation system can now offer cutting-edge packaging solutions for meeting at least three of these challenges.

The challenges facing industrial companies grow more daunting by the day. Globalization, energy markets that change in real time, variations in materials and prices, aging of the industrial workforce, inability to attract the next generation of
Talent, and difficult regulatory pressures have all contributed to an extremely stressful industrial business environment. Fortunately, the right automation system can now offer cutting-edge packaging solutions for meeting at least three of these challenges.

Vendors from advertising, marketing automation and analytics are racing to
deliver personalized digital marketing at scale. Marketing leaders need a
system that can integrate and coordinate data and activities across
channels, devices and contexts, continuously and in real time.

With digital transformation reshaping the modern enterprise, applications represent a new class of assets and an important source of differentiation. The ever-more-competitive digital economy requires that your applications be delivered with unprecedented speed, scale, and agility, which is why more and more organizations are turning to the cloud.
This explosive growth of apps hosted in the cloud creates a world of opportunities—and a whole new set of challenges for organizations that must now deploy and manage a vast portfolio of applications in multi-cloud environments. Automation and orchestration systems can help streamline and standardize IT processes across traditional data centers, private clouds, and public clouds. But with rapid innovation come concerns about security and delivering a consistent experience across environments.